Tulsa is my hometown. It is a little big city with a metropolitan flair. It’s a fast growing city due to the affordability and four seasons climate. Oklahoma is a great place to live. One of the unique things about Tulsa is that it has its very own sound, the Tulsa sound. I’ve always been amazed that Tulsa never flourished into a thriving music scene like Austin or a poor man’s Nashville, but nonetheless, Tulsa (as well as Oklahoma) has produced some amazing talent that has created the uniqueness of its very own style. I mean really, J. J. Cale ya’ll! Leon Russell, Elvin Bishop…helped to create the Tulsa sound which is part blues mishmashed with rock and country. It’s very distinguishable, influencing Eric Clapton most notably. We Tulsans even have our own accent called the cowboy accent. If I get too tired or have one drink more than I should, it really comes out. I love my hometown.
In my previous life I worked in Tulsa radio. One of the best people I met in that career is Dick Loftin. I was working my first radio gig at a country station that merged with the legendary KVOO. Dick Loftin was on air right across the hall from me. For a while, I did the 7-midnight slot and when D, as I like to call him, finished his on air show, he would come over and visit me. We’ve known each other since the early nineties.
Dick and his wife, Ruby, married for eight years, asked me to come do portraits of them during my visit home and I was more than happy to oblige, plus I got a great lunch out of it at a local tex mex favorite, Chimi’s.
Here are a few images of my great friends Dick and Ruby…
by Cindy
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